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Gopher is still alive!
To all the #minimalism and #retrocomputing fans out there, what would you think of going one step further than what #Neocities is doing and create an easy to use phlog system using #Gopher?
Gopher is the predecessor to HTTP and it enforced a minimalist menu-document interface, without all the embedded multimedia of the current web, but crucially focused on the content, without distractions, cookies, banners...
Surfing the Gopher Space in 2018:
@vascocosta People like @solderpunk and @ckeen have been offering gopher hosting. I'm not sure how "easy to use" it is, but my guess is that it's easy enough. 👍
@vascocosta @kensanata @solderpunk Yeah just drop me a mail and we'll get you online...
@kensanata @solderpunk @ckeen
Thanks for the info, I'll check it out.